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Examples

  • The man who called himself the Hoper had never stopped hoping.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • Thanks to Scott, I will never again be able to hear Darth Vader saying anything but “Hoper” over & over.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Jedi Gym: New to me anyway. 2008

  • Baltazar has worked as a stylist at LA's Fashion Week, assistant designer for "S-Hoper Designs," retail at "BCBGMaxAzria," and buyer for a contemporary retail chain.

    Hey Raymundo! Laura K 2006

  • Arrived at the shop, she bought a large scale map of Norfolk, and thus provided, hurried into Lincoln's Inn Fields, and assured herself of the position of Messrs. Hoper and Grateley's office.

    Night and Day 1920

  • A long shadow fell upon him, and turning around he found himself face to face with Mary Barner who stood spellbound, listening to her lately installed Band of Hoper!

    Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • When the last little Band of Hoper had left the vestry,

    Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • A long shadow fell upon him, and turning around he found himself face to face with Mary Barner who stood spellbound, listening to her lately installed Band of Hoper!

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

  • When the last little Band of Hoper had left the vestry, Mary Barner sat alone with her thoughts, looking with unseeing eyes at the red and silver mottoes on the wall.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

  • Hoper ascertained, by putting the watch to his ear, that this was the case; then pocketing it, he continued his researches.

    Sketches and Studies Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 1852

  • It was Hoper, in his usual dress of velveteen, looking now seedy, poverty-stricken, and altogether in ill-case, trudging moodily along, with his hat pulled over his brows, so that he did not see the ghastly object before him till his foot absolutely trod upon the dead man's hand.

    Sketches and Studies Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 1852

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